| Noun | 1. | dead - people who are no longer living; "they buried the dead"people - (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience" slain - people who have been slain (as in battle) living - people who are still living; "save your pity for the living" | |
| 2. | dead - a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense; "the dead of winter"time - an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities); "he waited a long time"; "the time of year for planting"; "he was a great actor is his time" | |
| Adj. | 1. | dead - no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life; "the nerve is dead"; "a dead pallor"; "he was marked as a dead man by the assassin"alive - possessing life; "the happiest person alive"; "the nerve is alive"; "doctors are working hard to keep him alive"; "burned alive" | |
| 2. | dead - not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat; "Mars is a dead planet"; "a dead battery"; "dead soil"; "dead coals"; "the fire is dead"live - showing characteristics of life; exerting force or containing energy; "live coals"; "tossed a live cigarette out the window"; "got a shock from a live wire"; "live ore is unmined ore"; "a live bomb"; "a live ball is one in play" | |
| 3. | dead - very tired; "was all in at the end of the day"; "so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere"; "bushed after all that exercise"; "I'm dead after that long trip"colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech tired - depleted of strength or energy; "tired mothers with crying babies"; "too tired to eat" | |
| 4. | dead - unerringly accurate; "a dead shot"; "took dead aim"precise - sharply exact or accurate or delimited; "a precise mind"; "specified a precise amount"; "arrived at the precise moment" | |
| 5. | dead - physically inactive; "Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range"extinct, inactive - of e.g. volcanos; permanently inactive; "an extinct volcano" | |
| 6. | dead - total; "dead silence"; "utter seriousness"absolute - perfect or complete or pure; "absolute loyalty"; "absolute silence"; "absolute truth"; "absolute alcohol" | |
| 7. | dead - not endowed with life; "the inorganic world is inanimate"; "inanimate objects"; "dead stones" | |
| 8. | dead - (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive; "passersby were dead to our plea for help"; "numb to the cries for mercy"insensitive - deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive; "insensitive to the needs of the patients" | |
| 9. | dead - devoid of physical sensation; numb; "his gums were dead from the novocain"; "she felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth"; "a public desensitized by continuous television coverage of atrocities"insensitive - not responsive to physical stimuli; "insensitive to radiation" | |
| 10. | dead - lacking acoustic resonance; "dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs"; "the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio" | |
| 11. | dead - not yielding a return; "dead capital"; "idle funds"unprofitable - producing little or no profit or gain; "deposits abandoned by mining companies as unprofitable" | |
| 12. | dead - not circulating or flowing; "dead air"; "dead water"; "stagnant water"standing - (of fluids) not moving or flowing; "mosquitoes breed in standing water" | |
| 13. | dead - out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown; "a dead telephone line"; "the motor is dead" | |
| 14. | dead - not surviving in active use; "Latin is a dead language"extinct, nonextant - no longer in existence; lost or especially having died out leaving no living representatives; "an extinct species of fish"; "an extinct royal family"; "extinct laws and customs" | |
| 15. | dead - lacking resilience or bounce; "a dead tennis ball"inelastic - not elastic; "economists speak of an inelastic price structure" | |
| 16. | dead - no longer in force or use; inactive; "a defunct (or dead) law"; "a defunct organization" | |
| 17. | dead - no longer having force or relevance; "a dead issue"noncurrent - not current or belonging to the present time | |
| 18. | dead - sudden and complete; "came to a dead stop"complete - having every necessary or normal part or component or step; "a complete meal"; "a complete wardrobe"; "a complete set pf the Britannica"; "a complete set of china"; "a complete defeat"; "a complete accounting" | |
| 19. | dead - drained of electric charge; discharged; "a dead battery"; "left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained"uncharged - of a particle or body or system; having no charge; "an uncharged particle"; "an uncharged battery" | |
| 20. | dead - lacking animation or excitement or activity; "the party being dead we left early"; "it was a lifeless party until she arrived" | |
| 21. | dead - devoid of activity; "this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here"inactive - lacking activity; lying idle or unused; "an inactive mine"; "inactive accounts"; "inactive machinery" | |
| Adv. | 1. | dead - quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly" | |
| 2. | dead - completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers; "an absolutely magnificent painting"; "a perfectly idiotic idea"; "you're perfectly right"; "utterly miserable"; "you can be dead sure of my innocence"; "was dead tired"; "dead right" | |